TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sánchez-Jankowski, Martín,
TI  - Islands in the street: gangs and American urban society 
SN  - 520072642
AV  - HV 6439.U5 .J259 1991
PY  - 1991///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Gangs
KW  - United States
N1  - Includes index; Bibliography: p. 363-371
N2  - An examination of urban gangs, this book provides a new understanding of these underworlds of violence, defiance and criminal activities. Eating, sleeping, and sometimes fighting with gangs in New York, Boston, and Los Angeles, the author takes the reader inside a secretive world, giving gang members' own words as well as those of police, public officials, and community members who live among gangs."www.shelfari.com"
ER  -